100. Barthel has produced a table showing what characterized the months on Easter Island:

The month of June was cold and nothing was growing. There was no work done in the fields. Therefore this could hardly be the month when Kuukuu worked the ground:

... On the twenty-fifth day of the first month (Vaitu Nui), Ira and Makoi set sail; on the first day of June ('Maro'), the bow of Ira's canoe touched land again. Ira's canoe appeared on the distant horizon, came closer on its course, and sailed along, and finally (one) could see the (new home) land. The canoe reached the islets (off the coast), and Ira saw that there were three such islets. Ira said, 'Hey you, crew of young men, the vision of Hau Maka, our father, which he revealed to me, has come true. There are 'the handsome sons of Te Taanga, who are standing in the water', for this is the name that the dream soul of Hau Maka gave them. Unforgotten (? kai viri kai viri) are they, these three. And therefore this is the (right) land lying there; this is Te Pito O Te Kainga, which also received its name from the dream soul.' (Manuscript E p. 17.)

The canoe continued its exploration and in a sweep sailed on to Hanga Te Pau. They went ashore and took the food with them. They pulled the canoe onto the beach and left it there. Ira sat down with all the other (companions) and spoke to Makoi: 'You shall mark the land for me and make it known (by its name)!' After that, Ira spoke these words: 'This is the digging stick (? ko koko), Kuukuu. You shall work the land for me and plant the yam roots!'

We have to move back a quarter in time-space in order to somehow put the dates in Manuscript E in their correct places. A quarter of 26,000 years (the anciently adopted measure for the precessional cycle) equals 6500 years and at that remote time the stars had been fixed at their proper dates.

June + 6 months (shifting from north to the Easter Island position south of the equator) - 3 months (drawing back the time shift during 6500 years due to the precession) = September. By observing the stars close to the Full Moon in September it could be deduced that in the beginning the Sun (in his Mars attire) had been here in the month of MARCH (in Swedish: 'MARS').

Therefore digging the ground for the yam roots should on Easter Island be done in September, whereas Manuscript E made Kuukuu (the planet Mars) dig the ground in the month of He Maro. The creators of the manuscript had pushed the mythical events 3 months back in precessional time and everyone would have understood this, for by placing the important digging to the wrong month of He Maro it became a Sign of attention, to make the reader reflect.

In mythic time (*64) it had been the ferocious Sky Bull (not a team of oxen) who was making the furrows.

... Ishtar, scorned, goes up to heaven in a rage, and extracts from Anu the promise that he will send down the Bull of Heaven to avenge her. The Bull descends, awesome to behold. With his first snort he downs a hundred warriors. But the two heroes tackle him. Enkidu takes hold of him by the tail, so that Gilgamesh as espada can come in between the horns for the kill. The artisans of the town admire the size of those horns: 'thirty pounds was their content of lapis lazuli'. (Lapis lazuli is the color sacred to Styx, as we have seen. In Mexico it is turquoise.) Ishtar appears on the walls of Uruk and curses the two heroes who have shamed her, but Enkidu tears out the right thigh of the Bull of Heaven and flings it in her face, amidst brutal taunts. It seems to be part of established procedure in those circles. Susanowo did the same to the sun-goddess Amaterasu, and so did Odin the Wild Hunter to the man who stymied him. A scene of popular triumph and rejoicings follows. But the gods have decided that Enkidu must die, and he is warned by a somber dream after he falls sick. The composition of the epic has been hitherto uncouth and repetitious and, although it remains repetitious, it becomes poetry here. The despair and terror of Gilgamesh at watching the death of his friend is a more searing scene than Prince Gautama's 'discovery' of mortality.

'Hearken unto me, O elders, (and give ear) unto me! // It is for Enk(idu), my friend, that I weep, // Crying bitterly like unto a wailing woman // (My friend), my (younger broth)er (?), who chased // the wild ass of the open country (and) the panther of the steppe. // Who seized and (killed) the bull of heaven; // Who overthrew Humbaba, that (dwelt) in the (cedar) forest - ! // Now what sleep is this that has taken hold of (thee)? // Thou hast become dark and canst not hear (me)'. // But he does not lift (his eyes). // He touched his heart, but it did not beat. // Then he veiled (his) friend like a bride (...) // He lifted his voice like a lion // Like a lioness robbed of (her) whelps ...

'When I die, shall I not be like unto Enkidu? // Sorrow has entered my heart // I am afraid of death and roam over the desert ... // (Him the fate of mankind has overtaken) // Six days and seven nights I wept over him // Until the worm fell on his face. // How can I be silent? How can I be quiet? // My friend, whom I loved, has turned to clay' ...

From *64 (Bull) to *41 (Bharani) there were 23 right ascension days. There was a time delay between the return of light in the northeastern sky and the return of growth down on earth on Easter Island. Earth and Moon were sisters and the behaviour of the Moon had basically the same pattern as the apparent behaviour of the Sun in his diurnal cycle. Therefore it was in good order to let the Moon illuminate time down on earth south of the equator. The flames of a Fire were moving up into the sky but Water was running down, drawn by gravity.

"April (Vaitu Nui) + 6 months = "October (Tangaroa Uri). The Sun king (Hotu) came to Easter Island in "October 15 (288 = 2 * 144) and this was around 4 months after the Explorers had arrived in "June. 288 - 118 (= 4 * 29½) = 170 ("June 19), but 288 - 172 ("June 21) = 4 * 29.

The name 'Easter Island' might therefore be understood as referring not primarily to the time when the Europeans discovered the island (on Easter Day A.D. 1722) but to the time when Mother Nature (Earth) was due to give birth on Easter Island, i.e. in October.

... In reference to your question, 'How do the natives of Easter Island obtain fire?' I [Mr. Croft] have to answer that they cannot tell. Their forefathers, like the ancient Romans, had their 'vestal' fires, preserved from ancient times; but the 'Vestal Virgins' of Easter Island were gray-headed and gray-bearded old heathen priests. It was a part of their duty, sacredly attended to, to guard the eternal fire, which was neutral, together with its guardians, in all wars. From this sacred fire the whole community - at one time a large one - could obtain that useful 'element' from time to time, as they needed it, for culinary and other purposes. This custom is still kept up by a portion of the community, while another portion rely on the matches of Mr. Dutrou-Bornier for their supply.

Another portion of the community have learned from Gambier Islanders (who were sent there by the Catholics, to assist the priests) how to make fire: not by rubbing two sticks together, as you ask in your letter, but by rubbing the point of one stick on the side of the other, until it makes a hot groove and eventually fire - a work generally of from five to ten minutes. In order to illustrate this, I have had a photograph taken for you, showing you the natives in the very act of producing fire, and have also sent you the identical sticks used on that occasion.

You will notice that the wood is of a soft and spongy nature. It grows abundantly on these islands, and is a variety known as the Hibiscus tiliaceus, and called by the natives 'Purau' and 'Fau', pronounced 'Purow' and 'Fow', 'ow' being sounded as in the word 'how'. You can, if you wish, obtain large quantities of it, by going on board the vessels carrying oranges from these islands to San Francisco; the orange crates are mostly made of it. And you could also get one of the Tahitian or other islanders, sailors on board of such vessels, to make fire for you by the aid of these sticks, and thus practically or ocularly answer your own question, as they are all experienced in the art ...